Whatever combustible factors were at play in the seventh-inning fracas Thursday night at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago — including the apparent verbal jabs of the White Sox’s Adam Eaton and the continuing idiotic provocations of Jeff Samardzija — Royals starter Yordano Ventura was the epicenter and pivot point of the controversy.
Yet again.
Just over 48 hours after Ventura said through a translator that he’s “definitely not looking to do this again, ever.”
Instead of being repentant about an incident that got him fined by Major League Baseball on Tuesday and his pattern of tantrums, Ventura seemed emboldened by the flimsy penalty of an undisclosed amount of mere money.